Famous Quotes & Sayings

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

Raghuram Rajan

Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.

Michael Mann

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.

And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.

Those who have taken refuge in this knowledge attain unity with Me, and are neither born at the time of creation nor afflicted at the time of dissolution.

The traditional role of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

Darin Strauss

I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

David Plouffe

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

Conrad Black

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

John Adams

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

Daniel Defoe

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

William Shakespeare

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

David Shuster

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

Because the calm person, who is not afflicted by these feelings and is steady in pain and pleasure, becomes fit for immortality, O Arjuna.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

John Cornwell

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

C. S. Lewis

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

Henry Ward Beecher

Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to

Afflicted with pain, he wanders from house to house, and in the world hereafter, he receives double punishment.

Sathya Baba

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

The survey was much weaker than expected indicating the bank's rate cut has done little to assuage the malaise that continues to afflict the U.K. consumer.

It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.

Lucinda Franks

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.

Fanny Burney

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Jessye Norman

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Milan Kundera

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.